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Francesca Milletti1, Loriano Storchi, Gianluca Sforna

  • 1Laboratory for Chemometrics and Cheminformatics, Department of Chemistry, Università degli Studi di Perugia, via Elce di Sotto 10, 06123 Perugia, Italy.

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
|October 4, 2007
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A new computational method accurately predicts the acid-base properties (pKa) of organic compounds. This fast and cost-effective approach aids drug discovery by estimating molecular ionization, crucial for ADME profiling and receptor binding.

Area of Science:

  • Computational Chemistry
  • Medicinal Chemistry
  • Drug Discovery

Background:

  • Physicochemical properties like pKa are vital for drug development, influencing ADME profiling, solubility, lipophilicity, and receptor binding.
  • Accurate pKa prediction is essential as most drugs are ionized at physiological pH.
  • In silico methods offer a faster and more economical alternative to experimental pKa determination.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a novel computational method for predicting the pKa of organic compounds.
  • To validate the method's accuracy using a large dataset and external experimental data.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized GRID software to generate molecular descriptors based on molecular interaction fields.
  • Developed, trained, and cross-validated the prediction model on a dataset of 24,617 pKa values.

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  • Employed spectral gradient analysis (SGA) for experimental pKa determination of novel compounds.

    • Main Results:

    • Achieved high accuracy for acidic nitrogen compounds (RMSE = 0.41, r2 = 0.97) and N-heterocyclic bases (RMSE = 0.60, r2 = 0.93).
    • Demonstrated good predictive ability on an external validation set (r2 = 0.85, RMSE = 0.90) with diverse ionizable groups.

    Conclusions:

    • The developed computational method provides a reliable and efficient tool for pKa prediction.
    • This method has significant potential to accelerate drug discovery and development processes.